Fifties (139 page)

669
NOBODY URGED ME TO GO:
Blossom,
It Happened Here,
p. 82.

669
YOU MAY DESERVE ORVAL FAUBUS:
Ashmore,
Hearts and Minds: The Anatomy of Racism from Roosevelt to Reagan,
p. 253.

670
GOVERNOR, JUST WHAT
ARE
YOU GOING:
Blossom, p. 53.

670
IF THE SOUTHERN STATES ARE PICKED:
Blossom, p. 30.

671
WHY DON’T TELEPHONE HIM:
Blossom, p. 54.

671
HIS FATHER, SAM FAUBUS, SAID:
Ashmore, p. 261.

671
HE WAS, ASHMORE LIKED TO SAY:
Author interview with Ashmore.

671
LATER AFTER LITTLE ROCK HAD:
Ashmore, p. 253.

671
FAUBUS NEVER EVEN SAW A BLACK:
Ashmore, p. 260.

672
IT WAS HARD TO FIND WHITE:
Blossom, pp. 50–51.

672
I BROUGHT ORVAL DOWN FROM:
Ashmore, p. 255.

672
IN
1954
FAUBUS RAN FOR GOVERNOR:
Faubus,
Down from the Hills,
p. 16.

673
I’M SORRY, BUT I’M ALREADY:
Ashmore, p. 259.

673
KEEP THE NIGGERS OUT:
Blossom, p. 84.

675
HE WAS TERRIBLY FRIGHTENED FOR HER:
Author interview with John Chancellor.

677
YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT:
Author interview with Chancellor.

677
A LOVELY MOZARTIAN UNITY:
Author interview with Chancellor.

678
A NATIONAL EVENING SEANCE:
Author interview with Daniel Schorr.

678
WITH TELEVISION EVERY BIT OF ACTION:
Author interview with Chancellor.

678
CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS:
Author interview with Chancellor.

680
LIPMAN ALWAYS HAD TO WHISPER:
Author interview with Chancellor.

680
WESTFELDT COULD SEE THEM CURSING:
Author interview with Wallace Westfeldt.

680
AT FIRST HE WOULD PANIC:
Author interview with Chancellor.

681
SHERIFF, THERE’S SOME SON:
Author interview with Chancellor.

681
A BAPTIST PREACHER BUT NEVER:
Author interview with Will Campbell.

683
THIS IS A SIN:
Author interview with Campbell.

683
I’M AN OLD MAN:
Ashmore, p. 258.

683
I’LL GIVE IT TO YOU IN ONE:
Bates,
Long Shadow of Little Rock,
p. 93.

684
BUT REMEMBER ORVAL:
Author interview with Ashmore.

684
IN FACT, THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL:
Author interview with Herbert Brownell.

685
THE MAN TO WHOM EISENHOWER:
Sulzberger,
A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs and Diaries,
p. 649.

685
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL WARNED THE PRESIDENT:
Author interview with Brownell.

685
HERB, CAN’T YOU GO DOWN THERE:
Faubus, p. 257.

685
IT WAS ONLY WHEN BROWNELL:
Author interview with Brownell.

685
I GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT:
Faubus, p. 255.

686
JUST BECAUSE I SAID IT:
Ashmore, p. 269.

686
WELL, YOU WERE RIGHT, HERB:
Author interview with Brownell.

686
A WEAK PRESIDENT WHO FIDDLED:
McLellan and Acheson,
Among Friends: The Personal Letters of Dean Acheson,
p. 132.

687
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE:
Bates, p. 104.

687
ALL SHE HAD DONE:
Huckaby, p. 77.

692
NL, THE TRADITIONAL NEWSPAPER ABBREVIATION:
Author interview with Reggie Smith.

693
THIS IS AN INDOOR SPORT AND TABOOS:
Gunther,
Inside America,
p. 285.

693
OF COURSE I’M GOING TO WORK:
Russell,
Go Up for Glory,
p. 17.

694
AT THE END OF THE
’55
:
Author interview with Bob Cousy and Bill Walton.

694
$6000
WAS GOING TO BE HELD OUT:
Stout, “Scientist in Sneakers”,
Boston
magazine, February 1989.

694
WE’LL COUNT REBOUNDS AS BASKETS:
Russell, p. 123.

695
THERE HAD NEVER BEEN ANYTHING:
Author interview with Cousy.

696
JUST ANOTHER BLACK BOY:
Russell, p.37.

696
THIS,
THE INTENSITY OF HIS PLAY:
Author interview with Cousy.

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE

699
I FELT AS THOUGH I WERE:
Lyon,
Eisenhower: Portrait of a Hero,
pp. 756–57.

699
I CAN’T UNDERSTAND THE UNITED:
Ambrose,
Nixon,
p. 434.

700
JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 113.

700
UNEASY, IRASCIBLE, CROTCHETY:
Sulzberger,
The Last of the Giants,
p. 103.

700
HE WAS SURROUNDED BY POLITICIANS:
Sulzberger,
Giants,
p. 102.

700
I DON’T KNOW WHY ANYONE:
Ambrose, p. 596.

701
YOU ALL WENT TO GREAT SCHOOLS:
Beschloss,
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khruschev, 1960–1963,
p. 34.

701
THE HEIGHT OF THE TAIL FIN:
Beschloss,
Crisis,
p. 149.

702
SUCH A PERSON, TRUSTED BY:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 94.

702
TO HIS MIND,
THE NEW YORK TIMES:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 2.

702
ROSCOE, THAT’S THE FELLOW:
Sulzberger,
A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs and Diaries,
p. 922.

702
I CAN’T STAND THAT GANGSTER:
Sulzberger,
Giants,
p. 579.

703
ONE PRAYS—HOW ODD IT:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 153.

704
WE HAVEN’T MADE A CHIP:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 7.

704
YOU BEGIN TO SEE THIS THING:
Ambrose, p. 516.

704
LOOK, I’D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT’S:
Ambrose, p. 433.

704
EVEN WHEN HE DID INCREASE:
Ambrose, p. 433.

704
GOD HELP THE NATION WHEN:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 209.

704
WHEN HE HEARD THE NEWS:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 7.

706
POWERS WAS A MAN, WHO:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 350.

706
I CAN SHOW HIM THE EVIDENCE:
Ambrose, p. 536.

707
HE WAS NOT AFRAID TO SAY:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 209.

707
I’LL BRING ALONG THE WHOLE:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 213.

707
THE BLACK LADY OF ESPIONAGE:
Powers,
Operation Overflight,
p. 67.

707
AS MICHAEL BESCHLOSS NOTED, KNOWING:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 234.

708
IF ONE OF THESE AIRCRAFT:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 233.

708
YOU MAY AS WELL TELL THEM:
Powers, p. 71.

708
INJECTING YOURSELF WITH THE SUBSTANCE:
Powers, p. 69.

709
THAT THEY WOULD
NEVER
CAPTURE:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 8.

709
THERE IS NOT A CHANCE OF HIS:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 37.

709
PERHAPS KHRUSCHEV, HE THOUGHT, MIGHT:
Powers, p. x.

710
YEARS LATER, CHIP BOHLEN, ONE:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 239.

710
THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS THAT ALLEN:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
pp. 59–60.

710
I AM NOT GOING TO SHIFT:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 271.

711
I’M GOING TO TAKE UP SMOKING:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 284.

711
I HAD LONGED TO GIVE THE UNITED STATES:
Beschloss,
Mayday,
p. 388.

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX

713
SUPERMAN WOULD PRETEND TO HAVE SEX:
Dorschner and Fabricio,
The Winds of December,
p. 21.

713
RESEMBLED THE ORGANIZATION OF A LARGE:
Dorschner and Fabricio, p. 65.

714
SINCE BATISTA WAS THE SON OF A CANE:
Dorschner and Fabricio, p. 63.

714
HE LOVED TO EAT:
Dorschner and Fabricio, p. 65.

714
A MAN LIKE THAT HAS ENEMIES:
Dorschner and Fabricio, p. 67.

715
SMITH LIKED TO SAY THAT HE:
Dorschner and Fabricio, pp. 48–49.

715
I HAVE LIVED TWO ERAS:
Dorschner and Fabricio, pp. 48–49.

716
BATISTA WAS BAD MEDICINE:
Smith,
The Closest of Enemies,
p. 36.

716
IRONICALLY, IN CONTRAST TO BATISTA:
Szulc,
Fidel: A Critical Portrait,
p. 105.

716
HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME:
Szulc, p. 297.

717
ARE WE ALREADY IN THE SIERRA:
Dorschner and Fabricio, p. 34.

717
THE PERSONALITY OF THE MAN:
Szulc, p. 413.

719
THE BATISTA REGIME AT THE END:
Smith, p. 38.

719
WHAT CAN I DO:
Dorschner and Fabricio, p. 461.

719
THE AMERICANS WERE, WROTE WAYNE SMITH:
Smith, p. 36.

719
LIKE MOSES PARTING THE RED SEA:
Dorschner and Fabricio, p. 492.

720
FOR HE SEEMED TO HAVE:
Smith, pp. 15–16.

720
WE BELIEVE THAT CASTRO:
Johnson,
The Bay of Pigs,
p. 25.

721
CASTRO IS EITHER INCREDIBLY NAIVE:
Wyden,
Bay of Pigs,
pp. 28–29.

721
AT THE FIRST STOP WHEN BAKER:
Author interview with Russell Baker.

721
BECAUSE I KNOW WHO I AM:
Halberstam,
The Best and the Brightest,
p. 98.

722
I’M SORRY ABOUT THAT EPISODE:
Ambrose,
Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913–1962,
p. 220.

722
THIS IS THE ACHESON LINE:
Ambrose, p. 520.

722
IT STINKS LIKE FRESH HORSE:
Ambrose, pp. 522–23.

723
YOU DO ALL THE TALKING:
Ambrose, p. 524.

723
WAYNE SMITH, A MAN NOT:
Smith, p. 49.

724
FIDEL HAS ALL ALONG FELT HIMSELF TO BE:
Smith, p. 49.

724
HE COULD NOT BE A MAJOR:
Author interview with Earl Mazo.

725
CUBA. CUBA. AND CUBA:
Wyden, pp. 21–22.

725
WELCOME ABOARD CHICO:
Wyden, pp. 21–22.

725
THERE WAS ONE CIA OFFICER:
Wyden, p. 31.

726
IT WAS CLEAR, CUSHMAN THOUGHT:
Wyden, p. 29.

726
HELMS, AS PETER WYDEN NOTED IN:
Wyden, p. 48.

726
THE PLAN CALLED FOR TRAINING:
Wyden, p. 25.

727
I’M GOING ALONG WITH YOU:
Wyden, p. 68.

728
ISN’T IT MARVELOUS:
Author interview with Mazo.

728
MR. NIXON HASN’T MENTIONED CUBA:
Kennedy,
Speeches of John F. Kennedy: Presidential Campaign of 1960,
p. 607.

729
THE VICE-PRESIDENT SOMETIMES SEEMS:
Ambrose, p. 601.

731
EVEN HANNAH NIXON CALLED ROSE:
Ambrose, p. 575.

731
UNFORTUNATELY, ANYONE WHO UNDERSTOOD:
Author interviews with James Bassett, Ted Rogers, Bill Wilson, Pierre Salinger, Don Hewitt, and Leonard Hall.

732
DO YOU GET A FUNNY SORT OF SENSE:
McLellan and Acheson,
Among Friends: The Personal Letters of Dean Acheson,
p. 193.

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Aaron, Henry,
692

Abbott, Robert S.,
443-44

ABC,
183
,
630

Abernathy, Ralph,
543
,
553
,
554
,
560

Ace, Goodman,
187

Acheson, Dean,
388
,
390
,
395
,
397
,
703
,
722